Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 7:10 AM +0100 3/29/05, Piers Cawley wrote: >>Doesn't that rather depend on the type of the attribute? Personally, if I get >>an object back from accessor method then I expect that any modifications of >>that object's state will be seen the next time I look at the results of that >>accessor method. This is a direct result of the way reference types work, and >>the world is a better place because of it. If you want a (deep) copy of the >>returned object you should say so: >> my $res = $object.attribute.clone; > > I recanted what you're replying to last week. Essentially, I agree with you > that references of non-scalar values should be returned by default, and that > the method must do an explicit copy if that's what they want returned. Things > are much simpler that way, and its how Perl 5 worked. -- Darren Duncan
Bah! Must start keeping up to date with the list again.
